ROMANTIC LOVE IN THE DOCK: WUTHERING HEIGHTS RECONSIDERED
by Lucy Sullivan Although on its first publication in 1846, some condemned Wuthering Heights for the violence and brutality of the lives and passions it depicted, in the mid-20th century it was the most acclaimed of the Brontë sisters’ novels, and the “love affair” of Catherine and Heathcliff, also, as the most powerful of representations…
Catch-22: 1960s bestseller not so much anti-war as anti-totalitarian
by Lucy Sullivan A Christmas television program several years back was a documentary of events on Christmas Eve 1944, the last Christmas of World War II. It recounted, among other stories, the bombing of a small village in northern Germany that, until then, had been almost untouched by the war. The story was told by…
The willy-nilly manufacture of rights
by Lucy Sullivan It was with a feeling of relief that I read in Terri Kelleher’s article (News Weekly, August 10, 2019) that the United States, of all the apparently unlikely places, is making a move to control the untrammelled manufacture of “rights” of the last few decades in which only to lay claim to…